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Friday, July 24, 2009

Kapil Sibal for stronger Center-State partnership in education

New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today asked from all states’ governments to submit their views on education, ‘where they want to see the state in the field of higher education by 2020.’

"In the next three months...Each state must give its vision as to what it wishes to do by 2020 in the filed of higher education," he said during a conference of higher education secretaries of states.

The state government’s vision should enclose "what is the state of affairs (of education) at present, kind of inputs required to realise that vision and budgetary allocation in the years to come," he said.